Nigel Farage Isn’t Serious About Saving Britain

Hardly a week goes by now that we don’t get a cautionary tale coming out of Britain, where the political elite are determined either to destroy the nation’s ethnic majority through the mass importation of third-world migrants, or to pretend that there is no ethnic majority to destroy in the first place.

Among the pretenders is none other than Nigel Farage, whose right populist party Reform UK is poised to win an outright parliamentary majority in the next general election. Farage has been a fixture in British politics for a quarter-century now and has always presented himself as counter-establishment. Yet he is also a man who likes to be liked, which means he will not speak candidly about Britain’s migrant crisis and what must be done to save the country.

It also means he will attack anyone to his right who does speak candidly about the crisis. This week, Farage took a swipe at Restore Britain, the new right populist party that appears to be rather more serious than Farage about tackling the migrant problem. Rupert Lowe, the member of parliament who founded Restore Britain, was forced out of Reform last year after suggesting the party should consider mass deportations, including of some who were born in the United Kingdom. Mass deportations are of course the only way to save Britain at this point, and yet Farage has said that such a policy would be unreasonable, indecent, even immoral. When Lowe proposed it, Farage said he just knew at that moment that they “had to get rid of him.”

But now Lowe is at the helm of his own fast-growing right populist party calling for mass deportations and remigration. So of course Farage attacked him — and did so in terms that Prime Minister Kier Starmer might have used: “Unless we are able to provide a proper democratic antidote to this, then I fear that we will see a rise of a really worrying, dangerous form of extreme right ethno-nationalism. And I think we’re beginning over the last couple of weeks already to see some specimens of it.”

Farage went on to boast that, “Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine[ly] intolerant, abhorrent, extreme far right than me.”

That Farage would deploy this kind of leftist rhetoric against Lowe should lay to rest any notion that Reform UK is serious about saving Britain, or that Farage is anything but controlled opposition. The very terms he deploys give away his game. Farage says he fears the rise of “ethno-nationalism.” Yet the English are an ethnicity, and they form a sizeable majority in Britain. At its most basic, ethno-nationalism just means England for the English, Wales for the Welsh, and so on. At a moment when Britain is facing demographic replacement of its native population engineered by the liberal ruling class, for Farage to decry the prospect of ethno-nationalism is an admission that he does not take the crisis seriously, and will not take the necessary action to meet it.

Indeed, like the entire British political establishment, Farage seems to have accepted the premise that England is not just for the English but also for vast numbers of Afghans, Pakistanis, Africans, and various other peoples from across the globe who have no real connection to Britain and her people.

Taking this view, however, means turning a blind eye to what multiculturalism has wrought in Britain. Lowe, for this part, has refused to turn a blind eye. Earlier this year he helped launch an independent inquiry into the rape gang epidemic after losing confidence in the official state-led inquiry. For those who don’t know, rape gangs operated in the United Kingdom from the 1980s through the mid-2010s, and consisted almost entirely of Pakistani men targeting working-class white British girls. It is perhaps the biggest scandal in modern British history, yet a government-funded independent inquiry was only launched last year after Elon Musk raised awareness about it and put pressure on Starmer to do something.

It soon became clear though that the government inquiry was intent on minimizing the racial component of the rape gangs. At every turn, the government broadened the inquiry for the purpose of watering down or distorting its conclusions. Seeing this, Lowe raised money to launch his own independent inquiry focusing on individual survivor testimonies. Part of the purpose of it, beyond seeking justice for the victims, is to raise public awareness about what happened when Britain imported large numbers of Pakistanis.

And what happened is absolutely horrifying. This week Lowe’s inquiry released a statement detailing the testimony of a victim who endured years of horrific sexual abuse and torture beginning at the age of 12. It is not easy to read her story, and yet it is essential to understand the true legacy of multiculturalism in Britain. This girl was raped “multiple times per day over many years,” the letter states, and the rapes were videotaped and “used as blackmail.” The police were in on it, and in some cases trafficked her (some of the abuse events were called “cop nights”). This young girl wasn’t just repeatedly gang-raped, she was also waterboarded and strangled by rope. The perpetrators even contrived, in their wickedness, to have a dog rape her, which they filmed, and then made the girl view the video, “as the men placed bets.”

This is just one girl’s harrowing nightmare. There were hundreds of thousands of girls like her over decades. The depraved men who did this were not English but of Pakistani and South Asian ethnicity. Some of them were British citizens, some were not. One reason these crimes persisted for so long is that those in a position of authority were afraid to speak out for fear of being accused of racism.

How ironic, then, that a man like Farage, who purports to want to save Britain, has succumbed to the same cowardly impulse as those who enabled the rape gangs. He will not call for mass deportations or denaturalization for fear of being accused of racism. He fearmongers about the rise of ethno-nationalism to assure his establishment friends he isn’t racist. He wants to be liked, and no one likes the man who calls for mass deportations.

The good news for the British right is that they still have men like Lowe, who are willing to be disliked, even branded a racist, in order to save their country.

John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.